The practice of medicine, according to the plan most approved by the Reformed or Botanic Colleges of the U. S : embracing a treatise on materia medica and pharmacy ; illustrated with numerous engravings ; designed principally for families / by J. Kost.

  • Kost, J., 1819-1904
Date:
1847
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Credit: The practice of medicine, according to the plan most approved by the Reformed or Botanic Colleges of the U. S : embracing a treatise on materia medica and pharmacy ; illustrated with numerous engravings ; designed principally for families / by J. Kost. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    collect about the teeth of per- sons that neglect cleaning them: this term is also equiv- alent with sanies and ichor. the offensive matter running out of old ulcers and sores. Sordid. Filthy, dirty, foul. Spasmus. Spasm. Spasmodic. Partaining to spasm. Spadix. An elongated recep tacle of flowers. Spatha. A sheathing calyx opening length-wise on one side, and consisting of one or more valves. Specific. A remedy that certain- ly cures any particular disease. Sphacelus. Mortified parts; mortification. Spike. A kind of inflorescence in which the flowers are ses- sile, or nearly so, and thus forming a spiral projection, as in the mullien and plan- tain. Sputa. Spittle. Stimulants.) Excitants, as pep Stimuli. ' 5 per, &c. Stipe. The stem of a fern or fungus; the stem of the down of seeds, as in the dandelion. Stipule. A leafy appendage, situated at the base of leaves or petioles. Stomachics. Medicines thai regulate the stomach and set pleasantly. Striated. Marked with fine paralel lines. Struma. Scrofula; it is alsc applied to bronchocele. Strumous. Pertaining to scro- phula; scrophulous. Sterertorous. Snoring. Sub. In anatomy this word is prefixed to others when it is desired to speak of parts that lay under; it means, there- fore, that this lies under the other part whose name it preceeds: thus, subseapula- ris, under the scapula,—sub- maxillary, under the maxilla or jaw, &c. In pathology it is used to express an imper- fect or feeble state of disease; as subacute, not acute, less than acute &c. In botany when shape or any other character cannot be precise- ly defined, sub is prefixed to the term used; it then means nearly so; as subrotundus, roundish; subsessiles, not quite destitute of a footstalk, &c. In chemistry tha term is applied when a salifiable base is ] redominant in the compound, there being a de- ficiency of the acid; as sub- carbonate of potassa, subcar- bonate of soda, &c. Subsultus tendium. A twitch- ing of the tendons, arising from convulsive jirking of the muscles. Sudamina. Small vessicles that come on suddenly with- out fever. Sudorifics. Medcines which promote sweating. Suppuration. That process by which pus is formed in an inflamed part. Syncope. Fainting. S}'nocha. Inflammatory fever. Synochus. A fever of a sub- inflammatory character. Synovia. Joint water. Syphilis. The venereal disease. Temporal. Belonging to th»
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